'Don't Follow Them, Look at Me!': Contemplating a Haptic Digital Prototype to Bridge the Conductor and Visually Impaired Performer

Autor/inn/en	Baker, David; Fomukong-Boden, Ann; Edwards, Sian
Titel	'Don't Follow Them, Look at Me!': Contemplating a Haptic Digital Prototype to Bridge the Conductor and Visually Impaired Performer
Quelle	In: Music Education Research, 21 (2019) 3, S.295-314 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-3808
DOI	10.1080/14613808.2019.1605344
Schlagwörter	Music; Music Education; Musicians; Foreign Countries; Tactual Perception; Musical Instruments; Assistive Technology; Video Technology; Nonverbal Communication; Blindness; Partial Vision; Music Teachers; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Musikerziehung; Musiker; Ausland; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Musikinstrument; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Blindheit; Sehbehinderung; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer
Abstract	This paper reports on an exploratory research-and-development project concerning a device for conveying a conductor's gestures wirelessly to a visually impaired (blind or partially sighted) performer as a haptic signal. The research team developed this device from January to July 2017 under a University College London (UCL) Institute of Education 'seed-corn' grant. As a platform for its development, they firstly observed and analysed video footage of conductors at the Royal Academy of Music, London using Elan software to create a gestural model. Subsequently, through gaining blind end-users' feedback on the device, as well as an experiment to compare their timing using either (i) a two-dimension haptic signal or (ii) a metronomic pulsation, it is suggested that the development of technologies for this purpose should focus on the meaning the conductor intends to convey coupled with haptic signals blind end-users themselves deem suitable, rather than adopting a 'sighted perspective' in attempting faithful transference of two-dimensional captures of arm movements from one medium to another. Reasons for this assertion are explored. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01